English 10 The first Genre Unit is a close study and practice in non-fiction and memoir. Students are reading together "Tuesdays With Morrie." In-class lessons focus on helping students to read more deeply with specific techniques and skill- builders. They are also drafting and practice writing 4 different writing prompts for the Memoir. From these "sneezes", each stduent selects their favoirte and bring the writing to the complete Rough Draft stage (RD). These writings will be corrected, sentence-by-sentence, by the stduents in guided lessons and practice. Their final draft will become their sample of writing for Memoir in their Portfolio. Each of the 4 memoir drafts are preceeded by short reading samples from a variety of sources vcovered in-class. Students have read and analyzed memoir draft writing from Jesus Colon, Walter Dean Myers, Mitch Albom, as well as observing the teacher plan, draft, revise and write a compelte RD of a memory titles "The Day We Left My Brother Behind." We continue with Non-Fiction reading and writing, moving into a personal and historical account of Elie Wiesel's struggle to survive the Holocaust in his memoir "Night." Students will next be writing a literary analysis in preparation for the 11th grade English Regents Comprehensive Exam called the Critical Lens for the book "Tusdays With Morrie." They will also write a second Critical Lens before the Miterm Exam based on the first and second books we will share as a class exprience. We start the 3rd marking Period with a Shared-reading of "To Kill a Mockingbird," work in the Realistic Fiction genre, and expand our writing experiences to feature writing in addition to continuing our earlier genre practices. Up-dated: July 20, 2011